The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-03
A NEW USE FOR PAPER.
BOTTLES MANUFACTURED THAT
HOLD INK AND RLUING.
The Hope Expressed That They May
Re Made Usefal for All 9th
er Purposes.

NEW York, April 1.-Wonders
never cease In this age of progress,
and the latest invention is a paper
bottle. l.. Ii. Thomas, a Chicago
ink and bluing manufacturer, seeing
the great advantages of bottle that
would not break, began some years
ago to experiment, and finally sue
ceeded in making not only a paper
bottle lined with water proof com
position that would hold liquids per-
fectlyy but MACHINES for making
them quickly and cheaply. They
were at first made and used only BY
Mr.. Thomas in his ink and bluing
business, but they soon became SO
popular with the trade that other
manufacturers of ink, bluing and
shoe dressing applied for them, and a
company with 100000 capital, in
which are interested a number of
leading business men Of New York
and Chicago, has been formed for the
manufacture and sale of these paper
bottles. Patents on the bottles aud
machines for making them have also
been taken out in all the principal
countries of the world; and it looks
as though, in certain lines, at least,
glass bottles would be superseded by
those made ofpqper.
The advantages are obvious: e.
First-To the consumer, Ia having
a bottle which will not break.
Annan1 ~, Al.
the risk of breakaee is equally unde-
sirable, and he avoids the litter and
trouble of unpacking glass goods, the
paper bottles requiring no packing
material, and being always clean and
neat; also, being lighter, the expense
OF transportation is less.
Third-The wholesale merchant
enjoys freedom from breakage, less
room occupied, less liable to loss
from freezing, paper being a rom
conductor OF heat and experience
having shown that only in very
severe and prolonged cold weather is
there any danger Of liquids in PAPER
bottles freezing.
Fourth-The manufacturer using
paper bottles has allsthe foregoing
advantages besides, his freight be.
iug less and breakage nothing, the
area within which he can do bust
ness is greatly increased. He finds
his goods more popular he can buy
the paper bottles as cheap or cheaper
than glass he is not troubled with
breakage, or litter of the packing
material; he can have his labels APP
piled in sheets at the bottle factory;
he is not liable to have his business
interrupted by strikes OF the glass
blowers, as the paper bottles can be
made by machinery, operated by I'M
skilled labor, and, in short, there is
every inducement for the manufact-
urer to use these bottles. They
have been found o practical success
thus far for ink, blueiug ana shoe
dressing; are just the thing for liquid
glue, liquid paints, oils and acids of
various kinds, and the scope of their
usefulness is constantly widening. In
the grocery trade we find that pro-
,gressive dealers are increasing their
trade In ink, blueing and shoe dress
ing by ordering these articles in pa
per, and wherever customers be-
come accustomed to paper" they
never want glass" again. The in
ventor has already perfected bottle
suitable to beer, and expects ulti-
mately to adapt them to nearly all
purposes for which glass has hereto
fore been ed. We now have paper
car wheels, paper barrels, paper
pals, paper wash basins and other
vessels; aud considering the wide
range OF use to which paper has been
applied, the old saying that there is
nothing like leather" bids fair TO be
changed to there is nothing like pa
per-"